University of Southampton NHS Foundation Trust; UK

Dr Christina Rennie is a Consultant Ophthalmologist, and Clinical Director for Patient Safety
and patient safety specialist at University Hospital Southampton. She is was recently
appointed as the Clinical Governance and Patient Safety Lead at the Royal College of
Ophthalmologists. Her role as clinical director sees her playing a key part in the
development of patient safety culture, safety systems and safety improvement activity
across the trust. She implemented PSIRF across the organisation and is currently leading on
NatSSIPs2. She is passionate about authentic partnering with patients and helped set up the
award winning quality and patient safety partner programme at UHS. She regularly teaches
on patient safety and human factors. Within Ophthalmology she set up the sight loss advisor
stakeholder group, an innovative approach to working with local charities and county
council teams to train sight loss advisors to support patients living with sight loss.